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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by freddref on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:19AM (#15384450)
"the underlying technologies are not yet scalable" - What does this mean?
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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by Torgo on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:56PM (#15386772)
Their number of transactions per second are orders of magnitude lower than VISA. Work is being done to address this, most notably Lightning Network.
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Re:IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of C... by DennisP on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:16PM (#15387532)
Also sharding, Plasma, and proof of stake.
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